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SbThread Class Reference
[Portable thread-handling abstractions]

#include <Inventor/threads/SbThread.h>

List of all members.

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Detailed Description

A class for managing threads.

This class provides a portable framework around the tasks of instantiating, starting, stopping and joining threads.

It wraps the underlying native thread-handling toolkit in a transparent manner, to make multiplatform threads programming straightforward for the application programmer.

Public Member Functions
SbBool	join (void **retval=0L)
Static Public Member Functions
SbThread *	create (void *(*func)(void *), void *closure)
void	destroy (SbThread *thread)
SbBool	join (SbThread *thread, void **retval=0L)
Protected Member Functions
	SbThread (cc_thread *thrd)
	~SbThread (void)

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

SbThread::SbThread (  cc_thread *  thread  )  [inline, protected]

Protected constructor handling the internal thread ADT. See also: SbThread::create

SbThread::~SbThread (  void   )  [inline, protected]

Destructor. See also: SbThread::destroy

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Member Function Documentation

static SbThread * SbThread::create (  void *(*  func)(void *), void *  closure )  [inline, static]

This function creates a new thread, or returns NULL on failure.

static void SbThread::destroy (  SbThread *  thread  )  [inline, static]

This function destroys a thread.

int SbThread::join (  void **  retval = 0L  )  [inline]

This function waits on the death of the given thread, returning the thread's return value at the location pointed to by retval.

static int SbThread::join (  SbThread *  thread, void **  retval = 0L )  [inline, static]

This function waits on the death of the given thread, returning the thread's return value at the location pointed to by retval.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• SbThread.h
• thread.c

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